That was a disgrace.
Cody Ross, 0 for 3 with a DP, misplays a simple flyball into a game-winning triple. Sanchez, another worthless game at the top of the lineup, throws the ball into the stands, allowing the go-ahead run.
Bochy should be fired –FIRED– for having Ross in right, given that he had about as much experience in PacBell’s right field as I do. Cody Ross has played in just over 600 games in his entire 7 year career, including just over 200 games as a right fielder. His last two seasons in Florida encompass about 90% of his career output. So, listening to these Giants post-game announcers tell me what a great outfielder he is makes me want to vomit.
BOCHY SHOULD BE FIRED FOR HAVING HIM OUT THERE.
THAT. WAS. A. DISGRACE.
A chance to pick up a game on everyone.
Unbelievable.
burriss, pharoh and decker join the club tonite
org needs burriss’ and pharohs legs for the late innings
over this past season, pharoh has matured….sometimes extended stints at aaa are good for a player
its a nice pat on the back for decker….im still hoping that the org has its sights on him taking over just as soon as they dump bochy
well pitched game today by madbaum
nate shows he is a big leaguer by making up for a base running gaffe, with the game winning hit
big test tomorrow to see if the timmy of the last outing is the real timmy…should know by the second
forced to listen to the snake feed
i think don sutton’s kid is retarded
i know that the color guy (is it mark grace) is an absolute tool…first time i have heard a color guy pleading with the fans to stand up and cheer…uh, highly doubt that everyone at the park had a radio, you moron
Unc Joe,
Mark Grace at one time was a decent color guy…but, has now too many years of partying in Scottsdale under his belt….and Sutton’s kid is a tool.
Madbaum was nails. Even more a reason to consider 4 man the remainder of season. This next start for Zito is hopefully his last.
Nate was clutch…and that hit was huge. Like I keep saying…it’s plays like that which make you believe things are lining up. Know +mia is coughing up at this moment on that one.
Rockies still the team to beat.
We’ll see if Timmy is back for real tonight. Look for monster outing by him…at least 10 k’s.
Stay hot Gigantes
One Game Out Of NL West Lead with 25 to go.
Are all our you negative nillies feeling stupid yet?
have they won anything yet?
you can rag on us when they are playing game one of the nlds
until then…it remains a tease
and its only a tease thanks to the most amazing collapse by a team in first since 34
Then why have you all not withheld your negative nilly comments?
Its called Adult Education…avail yourself of it.
LOL you. Right now, the Giants are still short of the playoffs. No one should feel stupid but you for getting banned from McC
No shit? LOL. They only ban mouth-breathing psycopaths and dickie-shakers. Oh well. Figures.
durty pitched great tonite
love seeing the bums eat it
but little joe said the dumbest thing right before the giants hit into a dp…that sabean has gone out and gotten more athletic players
roflmao
little joe aint paying attention
Unc Joe,
Amen. Great to see.
Sanchez is down right filthy. No lefty wants to face him. He is effectively wild…and great to see a Gigantes pitcher throw inside…regularly. Sanchez basicall say the plate is mine…try to take it. Cain is the only other who does. Trust me…Loney and Ethier want no part of him.
For the most part Little Joe was spot on…do admit that comment was off base. Usually Joe is completely negative on the Gigantes FO.
Pads in a complete Free-Fall. Both Rocks and Gigantes overtake this week.
Rockies team to worry about. Hopefully the Phils start losing a few.
It’s still ours to lose. We control our own destiny.
We have three off day Mondays in a row after today. Gigantes should consider 4 man rotation…and pull Zito.
Need at least two of three from the d-bags.
Well I would not go so far as to refer to him as effectively wild. That was Nolan Ryan and Randy Johnson more or less. Sanchez is more of an “effectively inconsistent” in the mold of Oliver Perez. He caught a pitchers umpire yesterday along with the ever elusive rhythm. Its never one thing, and if Sanchez has shown any proclivity whatsoever, it is to emulate Zito more than Cain or Lincecum.
He has no consistent command of either his primary nor secondary pitches. Emphasis on “consistent”. As written several posts back, this is Sanchez’ 5th year in MLB and he will be 28 in a couple of months. This is far and away the best season he has ever had statistically, running out an era+of 126. But overall he has been like the rest of the Giants; average.
Here’s Baseball References Comparables, inaccurate as they may be, they are still indicative that Sanchez’ inconsistencies, and not pure stuff, have relegated him to the pile of average that is MLB pitching.
# David Williams (980)
# Rich Hill (975)
# Scott Scudder (973)
# Rich Wortham (972)
# Harry Courtney (970)
# Tim Conroy (970)
# Bob Sykes (967)
# Hal Wiltse (964)
# David Clyde (963)
# Tom Gorzelanny (963
Next year will be pivotal for him. He is about the same number of innings pitched as Oliver Perez was when he posted his career best era+ of 145. 520 for Perez and 578 for Sanchez. Sanchez has already pitched a career high 168 innings this season with another 5 starts scheduled in the regular season, so that will be another reason to look at him very closely next year.
Of course we all wish him well, but the odds say he is not going to be a true rotation anchor. He has the stuff, but we don’t know if he has the consistency and endurance to be the true stick-out guy his potential says he could be/could have been.
Frankly, I think Felipe fucked with his head so bad in his rookie year, he never recovered/attained the deep level of confidence needed to excel over an extended period of time.
Take what you can get this year and be grateful for anything positive. Zito’s contract was for him to provide the stability and experience and staff leadership to show the way for young guys like Lincecum, Sanchez, Cain and now Bumgarner. Zito’s contract has had the opposite effect. He is a tumor slotted in the two hole in front of 3-4 superior pitchers in the most important month of the most important season since 2004. Thats the type of shit that goes under the radar and nobody in media raises jack shit about it. Just one more reason to have zero faith in Sabean’s ability to attract legitimate stars and stay away from has-beens, and the idiot lawyer from Microsoft who recognizes none of this–content to redesign team socks.
Which just goes to show, that simply because somebody has an overpriced education from an over-rated ivy league school, a prestigious position in a predatory corporation and an eccentric taste in fashion, with more money than he really needs, does not a smart nor accomplished man make.
The world is a funny place, not to be taken seriously
Seriously
the org messed with the kids head starting in aa when they tried to convert him into an rp
that season at ct set him back one year in development
what happened when he was called up just made matters worse
The Good Old Days
Things were different from 1997 to 2004. Especially after 2004, Bonds last healthy season. I don’t hold out a lot of faith for Bochy, as he doesn’t seem to be much of an improvement over Alou. He may have a big head, but he has not a very good record in September losing ground in all three prior Septembers.
Its not hard to understand why Bochy’s teams lose ground when his sphincter and brain both cramp at the same time. How else to explain his robotic-like starting line-ups that include Aaron Rowand, Jose Guillen and not even pulling them for defensive purposes in the last innings with leads. Never mind not shaking things up with the lamer Zito like the Cubs did with Zambrano. Since Management pulled up Zambrano short and kicked his ass for being an insufferable underperforming pile pooh, he has come back in the last several weeks to dominate.
Sometimes you have to kick an ass in the ass to get his attention and Zito’s ass certainly deserves some of the Zambrano treatment.
thanks to the pathetic bums pen, and the fact that torre wants out of that madhouse, the giants are now 2 games behind a reeling friars squad
friars are pulling a mets
thing is…if this squad makes it to the post…its one and done
i wouldnt have said that early in the year, even with the pathetic offense, because the playoffs are won by who has the strongest pitching
but right now, all giants pitching, save for wilson and romo, is pretty suspect
breaking news
belt will not be getting a call up
he will finish out the year with fresno and then get a break and go to az winter ball
to me this makes sense
while it would be nice to reward the kid with a month of good meals, nice hotel rooms and women with long legs, its better to keep him hitting then sitting on the bench….plus it sends a message to fresno that the org cares about their pennant chase
Another solid move by sabean, trading ray durham for darren ford.
John: please delete the above grammatical pile of shit.
Thanks:
Bruce
pardon the duplicate, the above rant got sent before it was finished
Dodging Bullethead
The mindless blog-reading and media worshiping Giants fans were all atwitter when the $6 Million man-child Freddy Sanchez made his Jerry Rice catch in right-field of a routine pop-fly to prevent the recurrence of what has been a series of late-inning disasters abetted by all kinds of defensive tom-foolery.
Ahem. WHAT KIND OF STUPID FUCKING DECISION MAKING IS IT TO HAVE JOSE THE TORTOISE CLANK MITTS GUILLEN in the trickiest right field in MLB of which he has a total of 5 games experience playing; in the top of the ninth inning with a one run lead, no less. A fucking dfa’d designated hitter from the worst team in the American League. With the roster expanded as of September 1st, Guillen was probably the 31st most appropriate player to have out there in that situation, right in front of club house man, Mike Murphy. Yet career loser Bochy has one of his cardplaying pals out in right field for fear of hurting his sensitive feelings, while Nate Schierholtz, a player who is as comfortable playing right field in PacBell Park as most of humanity is making toats, was playing John Madden x-box in the clubhouse for lack of anything better to do.
What the fuck is it with Bochy and petulant, slow players named Vinnie, Bengie, and now Josie? For those of you without the miracle of Newton Minnows vast wasteland of television who missed “Sanchy’s” ridiculous over the head catch of a routine pop fly, 2b Freddie Sanchez had to run from the infield dirt half way out to right field to make a desperation catch of a routine right-field pop-up knowing full well that the three-toed sloth from Kansas City via Dump Truck would be no where to be seen in the event of such an event. Sure enough, about the time Sanchez got to the ball, (after being backed up onto the outfield fringe to begin with with the equally slow-footed, Mora at the dish). Guillen could be seen just coming into the picture mere minutes after the the second guy on the scene; center, center-right, and roving outfielder Andres Torres.
I don’t know if Nate Schierholtz catches that pop-fly or not, but I am pretty sure, unlike Guillen, he would have arrived there before Barry Bonds was eligible for Medicare
In spite of a $100 Million payroll, the Giants have three dfa’d designated hitters in their everyday starting lineup. And if that were not embarrassing enough, those three (Huff, Burrell, Guillen) are routinely still playing in the ninth inning. With a one run lead. In a so-called “pennant chase”.
If that isn’t enough to convince the sappy front office worshippers that Sabean and his tools Alou and Bochy haven’t what it takes to reach, never mind perform in, the postseason, than there is a warehouse full of lunar green cheese to go with the non-potable white wine they’ve been slopping up.
Fucking disgraceful incompetence.
Just a fantastic description of the Sanchez catch and his “surroundings” at the time. On-point.
Continuing with Guillen…still can’t get past the sight of him getting nailed at 3rd by 15 feet on a truly routine, stand-up triple against SD. It was so shocking I couldn’t laugh OR feel pain.
isnt it exciting that the only squad sabean can put together is old and slow?
and zito has returned to form
and guillen just isnt a good fielder anymore
Unc Joe, +mia,
Zito just took the team out again by the 4th inning. When is this fucking guy getting pulled from the rotation? We have no chance if he goes out every 5th game. Just another worthless performance from a veteran with marginal stuff…making rookie mistakes every time out. Cannot even get a shut down inning after we tie…with the opposing pitcher as the potential 3rd out.
Total disgrace.
Fucking pathetic.
zito pulled a reverse this season
very good in the first half….total suck in the second
thing is, they dont really have anyone to take his place…
that bp fastball to billingsley was a joke
but the fact remains, if you are gonna have pitchers that are gonna get hit…you must have a strong defense behind him
with the current lineup, the giants have one of their weakest defenses in years
and look…they have scored a whole 2 runs tonite
The Albatross
Zito walked the first two batters he faced in the fourth. What are the odds that they were both going to score?
Historical records show that when the leadoff hitter walks he scores almost exactly 50% of the time. I don’t know what the odds are when the first *two* batters are walked. As one of the guys in the booth said, “The Dodgers have got a rally going without getting a hit.”
Since he was signed by the Giants Zito has gone 39-54. If you look at the leader boards all of his notable achievements took place while he was pitching for the A’s. The only high marks he holds while pitching for the Giants are in walks allowed (he’s always been in the top ten for giving up walks) and losses. Remember 2008? He lost 17 games and was #1.
Zito is a sucking chest wound in the Giants organization. On the field, in their payroll, in the standings. So far this is his best season as a Giant. He is 8-10. If you don’t count Wellemeyer, and who does, Zito is the worst starting pitcher on the staff. Zito’s contract is locked in through 2013, with a team option for $18M in 2014. If the Giants decide not to sign him in 2014 he gets a $7M buyout. Zito’s agent? Scott Boras.
hmmmm
was tonite a tease, or is timmy back?
and nice to see that ford got the call up…kid is fast
The Change was certainly running away from bats better than I’ve seen in a while. I’m cautiously optimistic, his pitch count was solid, walks were down, minus the one HR he was perfect. If Timmy’s the gamer we know him to be hopefully he knows September is put up or shut up time and he wants to earn his raise.
Unc Joe,
One of Bochy’s biigest…and continual blunders the past couple weeks…has been burning up Shierholz by the 9th inning as a pinch runner…and having to utilze another outfileder as a defensive replacement. Did it twice in the Red’s series…and once again Monday night. Cost us at least one…if not two. And this is only one example.
At least with Ford around…this will no longer happen. One of fastest Gigantes…ever. Lightening fast. Fucking amazing aggressive play by the kid. Awesome.
A play like that makes one want to believe things are lining up.
Somebody needs to take over the team after the 6th inning. Bochy is lost at the helm…and cannot run or manage a line-up card in the late innings. Must cost us 5-10 games.
Can anyone believe the demise and state of the Cards? They are close to rioting in St Louis.
Still believe we can make the playoffs. Our schedule is more favorable than the Phils…and we can still catch the Pads.
I love your optimism Scott. I really do. The world is truly a better place because of half-full guys like yourself. I’m not a “the glass is half-full guy” I’m not a the glass is half-empty guy.
I, on the other hand, am a “the glass is full of shit” kind of guy, because even if this collection of underpaid overachievers and overpaid riff-raff millionaires backs over the cliff and lands into a safety net instead of the rockpile, it will be because the Padres, Phillies and Cards self-destruct and the law of averages will finally enable this collection of stiffs to be pall-bearered into the post-season after seven years of embarrassment at the hands of Alou and Bochy and the front office gluttons.
It could happen. It still doesn’t mean this is a good team. Just watch the Yankees, Rays, and even the Red Sox and you will soon see that the Giants just dont belong on the same field with those teams. If they get to the post season it simply means they cracked the top 25% for the first time since 2003, and they did it with a collection of flotsam, jetsam and some abused younger players in spite of Bochy’s best efforts, not because of them.
I will not be favorably impressed until there is real, positive change for the good, and not one second sooner.
+mia,
Okay. I hear ya, and read you loud and clear. The fan in me has not had this much excitement since the departure of Bonds. I agree with most of your sentiments. Think this is an above average to good team…and even better if managed well. Do feel you are a little rough on Freddy. He is not worth the money…and the fact that he is overpaid shouldn’t overshadow his recent on-field performance. He does show up to play…and I like his emotion. If he plays this consistent in Sept…we’ll be fine.
On the other hand…Zito is another story. A complete disgrace…and his demeanor…or lack of…even worse. Rowand is a total joke, and hope he is left off the playoff roster. Wishful thinking…but, will never happen.
Yeah we have over 40-50 mil of complete waste on the payroll…and Sabean and Bochy should be gone regardless of the final standings…but, know in my gut…you(yeah you +mia) cannot get this emotional w/o being a true Gigantes fan. Know when you were a kid…you died and bled a little after every loss…and regardless of the socio-economics which are completely out of wack in the whole Bay Area(not Just At&t)…you want to see this team make the play-offs.
So, the fan in me…not the optimist…is imploring you to get behind a solid stretch run. Know that with your energy in a positive direction…could push this team over the top. You do have that effect…and power in you. I beseach you +mia…throw all the BS aside…and let the fan in you take charge…just for a while. Fuck all the high prices…not asking you to attend or drop any hard earned money…or give any credit to Sabean or Bochy. This is all about guys like you,Robert,John,Trantor,Unc Joe,Kevin,Me…and the rest of the OBM gang. Not to forget all true Giants fans everywhere….and the Gigantes team itself.
Put everything aside for 30 days dude…and let’s have some fun with this. We can always find time to lynch Sabean and Bochy later.
Give it some thought my man.
Let’s sweep the Blue Crew out of Chavez Ravine this weekend.
I like your style
Keepin’ fans eyes on the ball.
The Giants are fifth or sixth best team in the NL and thats if you rank them over the Rockies which I would at the present time. And thats the best they’ve been in seven seasons.
There were a around 30,000 at PacBell last night, and some simp from one of the local bird-cage liners was bemoaning the fact that there were so few folks in the stands.
With the kind of teams and management for the past few years, and the usurious ticket, concession, and parking prices, and the asses they have working security, they should be grateful they have that many. Seven years of anything from poor to average teams.
What a crock of shit. Nothing will change long term until the long term, entrenched personnel change
It’s obvious that certain managers, coaching staffs and GM’s are more attractive to prospects and free agents. Professional ballplayers are primarily interested in winning. That’s been their focus since they were competitive little ballyard rats. They want to win. They want to play for winning teams with winning systems.
The money is not a small consideration, but it is secondary. To attract even second-rate talent the Giants have had to resort to grossly overpaying players, and offering ridiculous contracts.
Because it’s not the ballyard, which is new and beautiful. It’s not the fans, who are loyal and continue to show up to games. It’s not San Francisco, one of the most beautiful cities in the country, and it’s not the budget, which is respectable at $100 million.
It’s the Giants system. From the minors to the major league team, the GM, the coaching, managing, and the long term, inequitable contracts that have good players flocking to other teams. It would be instructive to learn how many top tier players have the Giants listed in their no-trade clause.
Looking back, I think that throwing a fifth of the team’s payroll at Zito, a pitcher, for seven years was a huge part of Magowan’s demise as managing partner. It was a panic move. It was a very bad baseball decision, and the Giants are stuck with it for three or four more seasons. Zito’s paycheck is equal to the mortgage the team pays on the fucking ballpark. How retarded is that? Even if he was winning. He has not had a winning season since he signed.
It was Sabean’s desire to dominate the GM decisions that caused the the dismissal of the talented and winning Dusty Baker, who wanted a larger role in making GM-like decisions. Sabean would be a much better GM if he was able to take savvy baseball advice from his manager, but instead he has put the likes of Alou and now Bochy in the manager’s spot – even to the point of insisting that Bochy be part of his own extension deal. Sabean has seen to it that he alone is in control of the GM decisions. And, I believe, many of the lineup and on field decisions as well. Certainly he has built one of the most expensive disasters in baseball.
Sabean is not a baseball man, his comments about AAA earlier this season, his inability to communicate with others in his position on other teams, his inability to evaluate talent, the bad contract decisions all bear this out. Given his record, the way he talks like some sort of sleazy door-to-door insurance paddler, and the amount of money he has thrown away, it’s incredible that he still has a job. I imagine when free agent players and their agents meet with him the players, having gotten a taste, whisper to their agents “If he’s their GM then send me somewhere else”. The man is personally repulsive. Watch an interview. He is sleazy. He talks in circles like a shifty eyed liar.
Bochy is not a horrible manager, but he is a weak manager. That will never attract the best players. He has a poor reputation in baseball which includes his favoritism toward veterans, his long association with the clueless Padres of yesteryear, his basically mediocre on field management. Listen to him talk, it sounds like he just woke up. Not a good sign. He doesn’t seem like a bad guy, but he is not a leader.
The coaching staff, a common denominator throughout this abysmal series of teams over the last six years, has to be demoralized at best, incompetent at worst. Are they allowed to do their jobs without the likes of Sabean breathing down their necks? Do the players respect them or even listen to them? It doesn’t look like it. Even great talent seems to wither under their tutelage. I suspect they are better than they perform, but are whipped by their bosses. In either case, they’re done.
The inconsistency of the Giants playing is symptomatic of a lack of coherency in the Giants system. There is no uniform style of approach that would unite the team and make it function evenly. Systematic approach is lacking from the minors to the majors. Neukom has the right idea about a “Giants Way” but he’s not a baseball man either. He shouldn’t be the author of the “Giants Way” and he shouldn’t fool himself into thinking that the old crew is going to change their ways significantly. He needs to re-stock his management team and put a competent GM in place who understands the goals he has set.
Even if the Giants owners were to fire the entire staff, from the GM down, this off season, then hire real baseball men with great talent and a proven and respected record, it would take at least two years to recover from the bulk of the bad decisions made by the current staff. The long term contracts would see to that; and the damage to the current players, the lack of real development in the minors, would probably make it take even longer. Their ineptitude has inertia.
Every year that the Giants keep Sabean and his cluster fuck of minions in power extends the damage out another year. The sooner Neukom and the other owners figure this out the better, for the Giants, the Giants fans, and my mental health.
Robert,
Amen dude. Great read. One of the best and accurate posts written.
waited til today to even think about what happened last nite
teams going to the playoffs win last nite’s game
teams going to the playoffs dont hit into 3 dps during a stretch run
teams going to the playoffs dont have a second baseman who cant field during the dog days
teams going to the playoffs have a manager who understands when to make defensive substitutions
ross played the ball by the sound….what idiot does that?
wonder why the durty one’s head is a mess….see last nite’s game
nasty nate should have been in RF in the ninth, no bones about it
If Bochy hadn’t been told to go look elsewhere by Sandy Alderson, Giants fans and players wouldn’t have been sujected to his mind-numbing rambling dissertations off the field and blockheaded numbskulled favoritism on the field. In the ensuing mess of managers since Magowan and Baer had temper-tantrums and chased Baker and later Bonds out of San Francisco, Baker has gone on to take the Cubs to the playoffs and now has the Reds with the best record in the National League, to make his 5th playoff team in 13 years of managing, including the strike-shortened years of 1994 and 1995, the only years besides 1996 the Giants had a losing record with Baker in charge. He is 100 games over .500 in his managing career. He took a moribund Giants team and produced 4 play off appearances in the space of 6 years including the one game shoot-out with the Cubs in 1998. He took a bottom feeding Cubs team into the playoffs his first year there and came within one fan interference from a World Series appearance.
It is no accident that Baker since he left San Francisco is about to take his second team to the playoffs since he got bum-rushed out of here in favor of the incomprehensible career loser Felipe Alou to be replace by the inarticulate loser Bruce Bochy. Both of those guys have put up losing records most of their careers, Bochy with a career .493 mark, 35 games under .500 with 6 winning seasons out of 15. Alou had 6 winning seasons out of 14 including the 2003 and 04 teams that consisted primarily of Bakers players.
But the biggest difference seems to be the types of free agents and veteran players each attracts, and what they do after they get there.
Baker recruited guys like Bonds, Ellis Burks, Eric Davis, Andres Gallaraga, Kenny Lofton, Benito Santiago, Rob Nenn, Reggie Sanders and yes…even Jeff Kent… It was Sabean who chased Kent out after Baker left. Those guys hit, played and won lots of ballgames and walked, talked and played like winners.
And he had the same kind of team in Chicago when he got incredible performances for a couple of years out of Sosa, Ramirez, Lee, even Garciapara cruised in at an OPS of 819 and journeyman Todd Walker put up an .820 OPS. Kenny Lofton (yes, that Kenny Lofton from the Giants 2002 WS team) put up an .852 OPS.
Its not that any of those outputs were spectacular, it is that they were generally above what those guys played at elsewhere. If you look at Cincinnati’s roster now, you can see the similarities with guys like Brandon Phillips, Jonny Gomes, Joey Votto, Scott Rolen, Laynce Nix, Jay Bruce, all hitting and playing at high levels.
And then you look at the Giants for the last month. Boot-boot, double-play, bad throws, bad at-bats, bad pitching downcast eyes, when everything should be going their way..San Diego struggling, the Dodgers out of it, Manny put on waivers, their front office in divorce court, the Rockies Helton over the hill and Tulowiski injured and others having sub-par years while Jimenez hit the wall. And the Giants under Bochy, follow up a 20-8 July, their best effort since 2004, with a 12-15 August, a .444 clip, or a little below Bochy’s lifetime won-loss record.
Everybody wants to put the roster makeup blame on Sabean and thats where it belongs, but who the manager is has a lot to to with what free-agents sign here and how newer players respond on the field.
So while Baker recruits and creates an environment where guys like Burks, Sanders, Votto, Bruce, Phillips et al flourish, Bochy has given us disappointment after disappointment and caps it off by blasting Lincecum’s and Sandoval’s conditioning habits.
That the Giants season is spinning out of control with only 30 games left, despite the Padres equally embarrassing fall from grace, is no accident and it is not a surprise. The 20-8 July gave voice to the false hopes of the fan base, and the realities of the ignorance and arrogance and pure stupidity of Bochy and Sabean and their inability to provide a winning environment has once again as it has every year since 2002, crushed them.
Nine consecutive seasons of unadulterated incompetence brought about by the Sabean-Baer brain trust who are responsible for the foolery that has been Alou and Bochy. Meanwhile former Giants pitcher and Bay Area native Bud Black is cruising with his Padres and having the last laugh as yet another of the Giants who was pushed out the door by an arrogant front office.
The blame lies squarely on Bochy for having Cody Ross in right field at that stage in the game. He should have had Schierholtz out there with a one run lead as a defensive specialist. But maybe Bochy wanted to keep his bat in the game for the bottom of the 9th, since he’d already gone 0-3 and left two men on base.
When the ball went over Cody’s head I said a bad word that was probably heard a block away. But on further review, the broken bat probably made that a particularly difficult play for any outfielder. Shit happens.
And how many times did Freddy Sanchez’s throw bounce before it hit the base runner and was deflected into the dugout? But it was right on line. Bad break that they called it an error. He rushed the throw, might have just held the ball, kept the go ahead run from scoring. I don’t know. Pro ballplayers are aggressive and I wouldn’t want it any other way. Shit happens.
Lest we forget, the Giants only scored one run. So, in fact, the blame can be spread around. The only one who could be held blameless was Jonathan Sanchez, and did he ever look bummed out.